{"id":298875,"date":"2026-05-04T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298875\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:26:07","slug":"3-arrested-in-east-bay-sting-targeting-online-child-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298875\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Arrested In East Bay Sting Targeting Online Child Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, CA \u2014 Three people were arrested Tuesday after traveling to Newark to meet a person they believed to be a minor for sex, following a multi-agency sting operation, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was conducted by the Newark Police Department and partner agencies, targeting individuals seeking to exploit minors online, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the suspects communicated with an undercover officer posing as a minor before arranging to meet in person.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified those arrested as Jin Wang, 63, of Fremont; Anish Nishchal Dutt, 48, of San Leandro; and Martin Benjamin Capati, 31, of Mountain View.<\/p>\n<p>All three were taken into custody upon arrival in Newark, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with additional information is encouraged to contact Detective Sergeant Matt Warren at matt.warren@newarkca.gov or by phone at (510) 578-4960.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 Bay City News, Inc. All rights reserved. Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24\/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWARK, CA \u2014 Three people were arrested Tuesday after traveling to Newark to meet a person they believed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-298875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}